75% of the japanese killed died due to disease and starvation. Private nichamora recorded a bizarre incident in which one of his colleagues, an english speaker, declared, i've had enough. Richard b frank says the american forces lost 71 hundred people,. The japanese forces at least 30 thous and 300 and forty three people.
Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish.